Blaberus.- ................................:Blaberus es un género de insectos blatodeos (cucarachas) de la familia Blaberidae. Son comúnmente conocidas comocascudas, cucarachas mandingas o cargatablas. En este género se incluye la Blaberus giganteus, una de las cucarachas de mayor longitud.
Consta de las siguientes especies:
- Blaberus affinis Jurberg, Albuquerque, Rebordões, Gonçalves & Felippe, 1977
- Blaberus anisitsi Brancsik, 1898
- Blaberus asellus Thunberg, 1826
- Blaberus atropos Stoll, 1813
- Blaberus boliviensis Princis, 1946
- Blaberus brasilianus Saussure, 1864
- Blaberus colosseus Illiger, 1801
- Blaberus craniifer Burmeister, 1838
- Blaberus discoidalis Serville, 1839
- Blaberus duckei Jurberg, Albuquerque, Rebordões, Gonçalves & Felippe, 1977
- Blaberus fusiformis Walker, F., 1868
- Blaberus giganteus Linnaeus, 1758
- Blaberus latissimus Herbst, 1786
- Blaberus matogrossensis Rocha e Silva & Aguiar, 1977
- Blaberus minor Saussure, 1864
- Blaberus parabolicus Walker, F., 1868
- Blaberus paulistanus Lopes & de Oliveira, 2000
- Blaberus peruvianus Jurberg, Albuquerque, Rebordões, Gonçalves & Felippe, 1977
- Blaberus scutatus Saussure & Zehntner, 1894
Blaberus comparison. These insects will be one of my Dragon's future protein food. There are quite a few pictures. If you are on a slower connection to the internet sometimes the pictures may stop loading to your browser. If this happens to you then simply left click the refresh button on your browser to completly load all of the pictures.
Here are a couple of photographs of an adult comparison of my first four Blaberus species as of March 2006. I started with 150 animals of each of the following four Blaberus species in the summer and the fall of 2005 . In the first picture the animal that is furthest on the left is a Blaberus fusca which is 65 mm or about 2.6 inches in length. Next in line is the black winged Blaberus craniifer which is 61 mm or about 2.4 inches long. The smallest of my four Blaberus species and next in line is the Blaberus discoidalis which is 50 mm or about 2.0 inches long. The last tropical roach in this photograph is the Blaberus parabolicus which in my opinion is the chunkiest of all four of my current Blaberus species. This Blaberus parabolicus is 60 mm or about 2.3 inches long. You will find some variations within each individual Blaberus species especially if you compare the gender alone of any single species. This should be obvious since you can see variations in size for most any species of plant or animal on the entire planet.
The following photograph uses the exact same animals that were used in the previous photgraph. I just changed the order in which each Blaberus species was placed. Yea right, they actually chose which position that they wanted to be in. Have you ever noticed that an insect allmost never does what you want it to do but rather it decides for itself exactly what to do? While my camera flash and location did not capture it very well I did want to point out an intesting feature of the Blaberus craniifer. You should be able to see the red markings on the black crown shaped area on the pronotum of the Blaberus craniifer. They resemble a shape of what has been called the death's head which is where the craniifer's common name of the death's head roach came from.
Here are a couple of photographs of an adult comparison of my first four Blaberus species as of March 2006. I started with 150 animals of each of the following four Blaberus species in the summer and the fall of 2005 . In the first picture the animal that is furthest on the left is a Blaberus fusca which is 65 mm or about 2.6 inches in length. Next in line is the black winged Blaberus craniifer which is 61 mm or about 2.4 inches long. The smallest of my four Blaberus species and next in line is the Blaberus discoidalis which is 50 mm or about 2.0 inches long. The last tropical roach in this photograph is the Blaberus parabolicus which in my opinion is the chunkiest of all four of my current Blaberus species. This Blaberus parabolicus is 60 mm or about 2.3 inches long. You will find some variations within each individual Blaberus species especially if you compare the gender alone of any single species. This should be obvious since you can see variations in size for most any species of plant or animal on the entire planet.
The following photograph uses the exact same animals that were used in the previous photgraph. I just changed the order in which each Blaberus species was placed. Yea right, they actually chose which position that they wanted to be in. Have you ever noticed that an insect allmost never does what you want it to do but rather it decides for itself exactly what to do? While my camera flash and location did not capture it very well I did want to point out an intesting feature of the Blaberus craniifer. You should be able to see the red markings on the black crown shaped area on the pronotum of the Blaberus craniifer. They resemble a shape of what has been called the death's head which is where the craniifer's common name of the death's head roach came from.
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